Tonight was the T-Mobile Uncarrier 5 event in Seattle. It was pretty awesome. John is a funny guy. We will get to the Uncarrier 5 stuff in a minute, it was pretty cool, but he also announced Uncarrier 6, which is pretty damn cool if you ask me. With Uncarrier 6 T-mobile is working to set music free. Rather than force you to have an unlimited plan so you can stream to your heart’s content, they have made the top 7 music streaming apps available without touching your data plans.
Of course this only matters to those on the simple choice plans who have a set high-speed data limit. The services they announced are Pandora, iHeartRadio, Rhapsody, Slacker, Spotify, and iTunes Radio. There are two more though, Samsung’s Milk Music and Beatport. Those 8Â streaming services will never count towards your 4G LTE data allotment, ever. That leaves you free to use your data on other things. Also, if you do hit that allotment, you can still stream at full speed without cut outs or issues. This option is live as of today, so stream away without fear.
There is more though, they also partnered with Rhapsody and there will be a new T-Mobile branded Rhapsody unRadio service. This service brings in a 20 million track collection of music that is on demand. No ads, unlimited skipping, AM and FM streaming.
For those of you on the unlimited plans, you will be able to use this service free of charge when it gets released June 22nd. If you are a T-Mobile customer on a simple choice plan, it will cost you $4 a month and non-T-Mobile customers will pay $4.99 a month. Of course the $4 plan won’t touch your data allotment either.
If you don’t see the service you use and love, T-Mobile will gladly incorporate it. Well, at least they will incorporate one of the 12 others they have available to select from on their poll. Big surprise, Google Music is killing it already.
To get the full skinny, and to vote plus enter for a chance to win a Samsung Galaxy S5, head over to
Free The Music page at T-Mobile.
Video via The Verge
